ng).
Good luck!
-Jacob
On Thu, 22
Mar 2001, you wrote: >
> Dear All,
>
> My RedHat root password is lost. I have resolved the same problem on
> Solaris. Can I do that on Linux? Could you give me
Besides that, if she's already logged in as root, all she has to do is is run
passwd. She doesn't even have to know the old passwd!
Step one: reboot
Step two: At the LILO prompt, type "linux single"
Step three: At the bash prompt, type "passwd"
Step four: Enter and re-enter the new password
Step
> Harmit,
> You mean changing root password at shell prompt?
> he can remove the encrypted passwd from /etc/shadow and reboot and
> enter linux without a root password.And later,assign a password.
> isn't it?
>
But you first have to have the root password to edit the shadow file, so
it's circular
>
> Vineeta
>
> harmit wrote:
>
> > Boot it in single user mode & issue the command passwd root at bash prompt
> > retype it
> > reboot the system .
> > Hope this would help.
> >
> > Li Bing wrote:
> >
> > > Dear All,
> > &
root at bash prompt
> retype it
> reboot the system .
> Hope this would help.
>
> Li Bing wrote:
>
> > Dear All,
> >
> > My RedHat root password is lost. I have resolved the same problem on
> > Solaris. Can I do that on Linux
Boot it in single user mode & issue the command passwd root at bash prompt
retype it
reboot the system .
Hope this would help.
Li Bing wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> My RedHat root password is lost. I have resolved the same problem on
> Solaris. Can I do that on Linux? Could y
Li Bing escribió:
>
> Dear All,
>
> My RedHat root password is lost. I have resolved the same problem on
> Solaris. Can I do that on Linux? Could you give me ideas?
>
You can reboot your machine. In lilo prompt, you enter in single user
mode and then you can edit yo
